Andrew W.K. Quotes

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

When art is really great, it's really powerful, can really do something to you, make you feel more alive and make you feel more connected to something. If you don't feel like that when you do it, and you just make a movie to make money, that would be pretty boring to me. I just wouldn't do it. That would be like sitting in an office, which I don't want to do.

It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

All art is about appealing to emotion.

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life.

If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their time.

I'm not very particular about the commercial angle in my films, but entertainment is very important.

I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art… If you follow this approach you can use techniques to the service of man and to the service of an artistic idea, and beauty.

As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.